PET

• Give me some examples of Practical factors

  • Time
  • Cost
  • Funding bodies
  • Response rate
  • Sample size
  • researcher characteristics
  • researcher skills
  • gatekeepers
• what are some ethical issue

  • sensitivity
  • informed consent
  • deception
  • right to withdraw
  • psychological/physical harm
  • privacy
• what are some theoretical issues

  • Interpretevists prefer qualitative data that is high in validity/verstehen. There should be less subjectivity as you should be connected to your research.
  • Positivists prefer quantitative data that is high in reliability and is objective so no bias from researcher etc. They also want large sample sizes with high response rates so that the data is representative and therefore generaoisable
• What’s an example of the ethical issue of privacy being affected

  Loud humphries the tea room trade where he stood outside the bathroom to find out if sexual behaviour was going on.
• what’s an example of a sensitive piece of research that took a lot of time and was conducted through unstructured interviews


  Dobash and dobash researched domestic abuse and had interviews which took 12 hrs each. They build rapport which led to trust which means the data was more valid
• What’s an example of a covert participant observation 


  James Patrick the Glasgow gang